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Idiocracy

Luke Wilson (Actor), Maya Rudolph (Actor), Mike Judge (Director, Writer) Rated:

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Genre	Comedy
Format	Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor	Dax Shepard, Maya Rudolph, Luke Wilson, Kevin McAfee, Terry Crews, Mike Judge, Etan Cohen, Michael McCafferty, David Herman, Anthony 'Citric' Campos, Justin Long, Robert Musgrave, Christopher Ryan, Sonny Castillo See more
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 24 minutes

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Meet Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson). He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. But when a government hibernation experiment goes awry, Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to an average Joe to get human evolution back on track.

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Given that Office Space is a bona fide cult classic, it comes as some surprise that Mike Judge's follow-up wasn't more heavily promoted. Granted, this live-action comedy is a darker, more pointed proposition, but it's unfortunate that few theater patrons got the opportunity to, well, judge for themselves. In Idiocracy, the King of the Hill creator visualizes what would happen if Devo's proposition--that mankind is in the process of devolution--came to pass. The catalyst: the overeducated start having fewer children while the undereducated have more. Enter Joe (Luke Wilson), a military librarian with no family and even less ambition. The Pentagon chooses him for a top-secret hibernation project due to his extreme "average-ness." They select Rita (SNL's Maya Rudolph), a prostitute, for the same reason. When the experiment goes haywire, the two emerge 500 years later--rather than one. Now it's 2505 and they're the brightest people in the over-polluted land. Everyone else is, basically, Beavis and Butt-head. Yes, the satire couldn't be less subtle, but the premise gives Judge license to make as much fun of junk food pop culture as dystopian classics like 1984 and Planet of the Apes. Wilson wisely plays it straight, even if the actors who surround him sometimes succumb to excess. And the effects may be cheesy, but that just adds to the fun. Idiocracy features former footballer Terry Crews (Everybody Hates Chris) as President Camacho and Dax Shepard (Punk'd) as Joe's futuristic friend Frito. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.57 x 5.39 x 7.49 inches; 2.4 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2240179
Director ‏ : ‎ Mike Judge
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 24 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ January 9, 2007
Actors ‏ : ‎ Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, Anthony 'Citric' Campos
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified, Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Buena Vista Home Ent
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000K7VHOG
Writers ‏ : ‎ Etan Cohen, Mike Judge
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Westlaw

Should be required viewing.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2023

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I think I’m going to stop teaching Civics in Florida and just show this movie on loop instead. Just kidding, it isn’t age appropriate for kids in school which is too bad because it should be a staple.

My favorite part today is how everyone in the dystopian uneducated future is wearing these ridiculous plastic shoes. Those shoes are now knows as crocs. That’s right, we’re all wearing idiot shoes.

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Was a comedy when filmed, seams like a documentary today, and an Oracle of tomorrow.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 13, 2023

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I enjoyed this film -in it's silliness- when released, I thought it was a good comedy. Today sadly, it seems like a documentary and a sad prediction of our country's future. Worth buying just for it's eye opening depiction of our societal disfunction. This is one (of two) of the funniest movies produced in the last twenty plus years, it comes from the mind of one creator, Mike Judge. Also see... Office Space (the second of the two movies, it satirizes the work life of a typical 1990s software company, but feels so timeless it could easily apply today -2023- with all the WFR going on in high tech companies).

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Kevin T. Roberts

This Has Become a Documentary

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2023

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Every single US Citizen should watch this movie if they have not already. We are well on our way to achieving this state of chaos, stupidity, and mind control, about 500 years earlier than predicted, and we need to put down our screens, get an education and learn to think again. As the writers and producers of this movie have said over the last few years...."we never meant this movie to be a documentary,.....but it looks like it has become one." Cringingly, sadly, scarily funny and right on the mark as a social commentary.

7 people found this helpful

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Terry

This could be humanities near future.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2023

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Movie is awesome, hilarious and somewhat sobering given today's social climate. Even being an older movie, it directly hits a lot of hot button issues on the head. It is sad to think this is the direction the human race is going.

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Edward C. Brandwein

One of my favorite flicks

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2023

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Absolutely hilarious. And also kind of a warning of where we seem to be headed at times. Well worth watching

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Emilia Grace Johnson

It is looking to be a documentary about the future

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2023

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When I watched this I couldn't help but notice how similar this is to our current day and age. The crocs was one thing I noticed, another is the stupid amount of coffee they drink.

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Christopher Tune

Demographics Can Be Hard on Society

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2023

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This movie is hilarious. In this story an altogether ordinary guy stumbles into a military experiment in suspended animation only to wake up a long time in the future. It turns out that mankind and its society has degenerated by then, so that everything is stumbling along run by and featuring idiots. From "ordinary guy" this man is now the worlds highest intellect. He solves world problems because he is the only non-idiot in future society (oh, he has a woman; a prostitute who also got into this same situation). People often cite this movie as they express frustration with the less than stellar leaders in society today (present year 2023).

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Rob

Underrated movie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 16, 2023

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This is an AWESOME movie and is terribly underrated. VERY relevant to today's world.

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paul garrett

Its already happening folks!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 27, 2020

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Having read various other reviews about this iconic very funny film .seems its marmite...either love it or not.
For me its a good representation of what is already happening in society today, not 500 years in the future..just look what is going on out there with thick stupid people everywhere obssessd with trashy tv and reality shows so watching this laugh out loud film really brings it home...if we are going down this path now God knows what society will be like in 500 years time..glad i will not be around to see it...unless i get cryogenically frozen first! Ha!

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Call me Al

Brutal satire disguised as low comedy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 21, 2017

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Prescient, prophetic or puerile pap? Mike Judge’s brilliant 2005 gross-out brutal satire is all three and more. I absolutely loved this movie. It’s not just a guilty pleasure. It’s an absolute pleasure. In his hilarious 1973 slapstick movie Sleeper after waking up from a cryogenically frozen sleep 200 years in the future Woody Allen’s health food shop owner come jazz musician discovers a United States ruled as a police state. When Luke Wilson’s military librarian wakes up 500 years in this future he finds the United States in a near comatose state due to the out-breeding of the intelligent and educated by the more indolent of the human species. Judge’s future nightmare imagines a world bereft of knowledge, knowing nothing about engineering, agriculture and medicine, limping by thanks to the automation of basic societal functions by more intelligent ancestors. It’s an apocalyptic vision of a world gone dumb that Jonathan Swift would be proud of, a fantastical dystopian future exaggerating the increasingly pervasive intrusion of advertising and commercialism into contemporary life, the dysevolution of the English language into a stunted hip-hop grunting patois and a derisory disdain of anyone suspected of possessing insightful observations. The plot is basic and nonsensical but contains some marvelous moments. The Basil Exposition time-travel monologue is priceless while the Fox newscast seems nauseatingly credible. The imagined conclusion to the existing direction of travel is disturbingly plausible – a celebrity president presiding over a country whose inhabitants crave instant gratification. Already a cult classic, this is definitely a film to seek out.

26 people found this helpful

NEE

good film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 8, 2022

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good film think my be near the truth way our country is loosing its morals and british ness

4 people found this helpful

m j eccleston

Prescient movie

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 8, 2022

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Wanted to watch this again for a long time.
Got it on dvd, rather than pay subscription.
Excellent comedy with a rather poignant theme. The dumbing down in society and the gradual loss of intelligence, reason, logic, skill ,education and respect.
Two average Americans get put into suspended animation for a year as an experiment , unfortunately they are forgotten about and wake up many hundreds of years later. Gags and puns aplenty.

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Sherlock Humbug

Willkommen im Jahre 2505, oder doch in 2021?

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 22, 2021

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Ein streng geheimes Kälteschlaf Experiment der amerikanischen Regierung geht schief: Eigentlich sollten die beiden Probanden Joe und Rita nur für ein Jahr eingefroren werden, aufgrund einer Verkettung unglücklicher Umstände erwachen sie aber erst 500 Jahre in der Zukunft und müssen alsbald feststellen, dass jegliche Intelligenz der Menschen mittlerweile völlig ausgestorben ist.

"Idiocracy" ist eine US - amerikanische Low Budget Komödie aus dem Jahre 2006, die über weite Strecken zu gefallen weiss und aktueller denn je zu sein scheint. Der Film zeigt nur zu gut auf, was jahrzehntelanges Trash TV und mediale Verblödungspropaganda mit den Menschen anstellen.

Der Humor ist an einigen Stellen wirklich königlich, bei manch anderen Szenen bleibt einem das Lachen fast im Halse stecken, wenn man erkennt, wie dicht wir uns hier an der Realität des Jahres 2021 befinden.

Halbwegs intelligente Menschen sollten "Idiocracy" auf jeden Fall mal gesehen haben, Corona Jünger, hüpfende Klima Kids und Schweiger, Schweighöfer und M'Barek Fans werden diesen Film allerdings weder lustig finden noch im Ansatz kapieren.

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